Journal article
A Longitudinal Evaluation of Euroflow and Combined Quantitative Immunoprecipitation (QIP) and Free Light Chain (FLC) Mass Spectometry (MS) in Functional High Risk Multiple Myeloma
Andrew Spencer, Tiffany Khong, Flora Yuen, Hannah Victoria Giles, Malgorzata Gorniak, Hang Quach, Noemi Horvath, Ian H Kerridge, Edwin Sze-Hung Lee, Krystal Bergin, Shreerang Sridesai, Anna Kalff, John Reynolds
Blood | American Society of Hematology | Published : 2019
Abstract
Introduction: The achievement of minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity is being increasingly recognised as the optimal measure of therapeutic response for both newly diagnosed and relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma (MM) patients. Bone marrow (BM) evaluation with either Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) or Next Generation Flow-cytometry (NGF) affords a high level of sensitivity and the attainment of MRD negativity (< 1 in 10-5 MM cells) with either approach is a powerful predictor of superior progression free survival (PFS). Both, however, are limited by the requirement for invasive bone marrow biopsy and the technical limitations imposed by variability in sample quality. Moreover..
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